Today is the 79th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Believe it or not, Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Okehazama has a relationship with each other. Right before the Japanese attacked, it was known that Admiral Yamamoto mentioned it in their diaries. Paul Varley in Oda Nobunaga, Guns, and Early Modern Warfare in Japan (p. 114), "Thus, in the days before Pearl Harbor in 1941, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku (1884-1943) and many other Japanese military leaders referred to Okehazama in their letters and diaries as they planned their surprise attack on the United States. For them, Okehazama was a synonym for a sudden, unannounced attack."
Nobunaga did the same at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560 killing Imagawa Yoshimoto.
As for Pearl Harbor, Gordon W. Prange's At Dawn We Slept is the best book on the subject. Tora! Tora! Tora! is the best movie and probably accurate.
Tenka no tame!
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